Laying the firm foundations for a Jisc UK Research Data Discovery Service

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The beta version of the Discovery Service is updated every fortnight and a list of changes is sent to the project mailing list and posted on this blog. Here’s the latest update from our developer Mark Winterbottom. Technical Update (30 June, 2017) Key Improvements This sprint, Mark has been working on creating the custom harvest … Read more

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The beta version of the Discovery Service is updated every fortnight and a list of changes is sent to the project mailing list and posted on this blog. Here’s the latest update from our developer Mark Winterbottom. Technical Update (16 June, 2017) Key Improvements The focus of this sprint has been on the following: Deploy … Read more

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The beta version of the Discovery Service is updated every fortnight and a list of changes is sent to the project mailing list and posted on this blog. Here’s the latest update from our developer Mark Winterbottom. Technical Update (2 June, 2017) Key Improvements The focus of this sprint has been to get the remaining … Read more

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As mentioned in the previous post, the beta version of the Discovery Service is updated every fortnight and a list of changes is sent to the project mailing list and posted on this blog. Here’s the latest update from our developer Mark Winterbottom. Technical Update (19 May, 2017) Key Improvements Items completed in this sprint: … Read more

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If you attended the recent webinar for this phase of the project, or read the report on the webinar, you will know that we have launched the beta version of the Discovery Service and will be providing regular updates on the progress of the project. We are now re-harvesting metadata from participants involved in phase … Read more

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Introduction The following post is a report from the first webinar (held on 27 April 2017) for the third phase of the Research Data Discovery Service project. The aims of the webinar were to welcome new participants, provide an update of the project, introduce the new beta version (http://researchdiscoveryservice.jisc.ac.uk), highlight progress and review requirements from … Read more

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In my previous post, I described the latest phase (three) of the Research Data Discovery Service. In this post I’d like to describe in more detail the plans for harvesting metadata from other UK HEIs and Data Centres with research data collections. In phase 2 metadata was harvested from 9 HEIs (Hull, St Andrews, Glasgow, … Read more

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The latest phase of the UKRDDS will run from October 2016 to September 2017 and follows on from the second phase of the project. This post summarises work from the second phase and what’s planned for this third phase. Phase 2 This Jisc-led second phase of the project ran from March 2015 to September 2016 … Read more

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The project team and representatives from all participating pilot HEIs and Data Centres convened in London for the third workshop of the UK Research Data Discovery Service on 13 October 2016. This was the final workshop of what is now known as phase 2 of the project, which ran from March 2015 to September 2016 … Read more

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The following post has been written by Dom Fripp – senior metadata curation developer at Jisc and part of the UKRDDS team. Earlier this year, Torsten Reimer wrote a blog post entitled “Less is more? A metadata schema for discovery of research data”. In it, he considered what metadata schemas were in use in UK … Read more